These kinds of thoughts tend to come when you’ve been awake for a while. You might start thinking about how nervous or anxious you feel, or how frustrated or annoyed you are, for example. Inevitably, if you’re thinking about things that stress you out, you’re going to start feeling some emotions. You might be very aware of your heartbeat or your breathing which reminds you of how stressed and anxious you are. If you’re lying awake you might start thinking about how tired and sleepy you feel or how mentally awake you are. When you’re in bed and the lights are off, your senses can become heightened. Or if sleep has become an issue for you perhaps you’re thinking of all the ways to help you get to sleep.įocusing on your body. You might think about the reasons you have anxiety and how you can get rid of it. Naturally, when we have a problem, we want to fix it and so your thoughts can turn to trying to find a solution to what is going on for you. You might think about your work or responsibilities, your health, or your personal life, for example. This doesn’t necessarily have to be something negative either. If you have something going on in your life that is demanding your attention or you have changed some part of your life recently, you might find yourself thinking about it. Thinking about life’s circumstances/problems.
You might think about the things you have to do tomorrow or about some event that you have coming up in the future. You might run through what happened during your day. You might think about things that have happened in your past, either recent things or those that happened way back when. We tend to go over stuff that has happened and think about all the eventualities of something to come. I briefly touched on these kinds of thoughts in my opening paragraph. Replaying, rehearsing and planning thoughts. So what kind of thoughts keep you awake at night? Thoughts tend to fall into the following categories: Some people find they are kept awake by their thoughts for hours which affects their overall quality of sleep and insomnia can become a problem. As you’d expect, having racing thoughts when you get into bed will hinder your ability to fall asleep. Allowing your mind to race will lead to even more stress and anxiety, neither of which are conducive to a good night’s sleep. However, when people have anxiety, racing thoughts at night are more prevalent. Whilst this can be frustrating especially as it disrupts your sleep, generally, once the job interview is over, you’re on your holiday, or you’ve made up with your friend, your mind stops racing and you are able to drift off to sleep. Or maybe you had an argument with a friend earlier in the day and you replayed the conversation in your mind, thinking about the things you wished you hadn’t said and the things that you didn’t because they only popped into your mind afterwards. Or maybe the night before the holiday of a lifetime you were so excited about all the things you are going to see, eat, drink and do, running through whether you have packed everything and doing some last minute planning on how you are getting to the airport. Perhaps the night before a job interview you played the interview out in your mind like you were actually there, rehearsing how you would respond to the questions they might ask you, worrying about what they will think of you and whether you’ll get the job or not. I think I can safely say that everyone has laid awake at night with their thoughts racing all over the place.
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